# Igor **Entity class:** System **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition Igor was PayPal's fraud-detection system, using software to scan large transaction populations for anomalies and route suspicious cases to human analysts. ## Chronological Proximity It operated around PayPal's 1999–2002 growth, immediately before Palantir's founding. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]], Max Levchin, and PayPal's analysts supplied the organizational setting; the machine-filtering-plus-human-review pattern became a prototype for intelligence fusion. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].